Wednesday, March 3, 2010

For Sale: One Judgeship, Slightly Used

Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Actually I think this is an incredible mistake. Think about it for a minute. He has only nominated this man, which means he has to get him through the Senate. Imagine that scene. He is sending a nominee that has clearly been nominated to buy a vote, to the Senate where the Republicans then get to publicly comment on the nomination. This has the potential to backfire and COST them the health care vote

FOXNews.com

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